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Brahms Concerti and Chamber Music with The Cleveland Orchestra

Fima is in Cleveland, OH performing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Opus 83 with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst. He will embark on a tour with them next week starting on Jan. 23rd for performances in Sarasota, West Palm Beach (Jan. 25), and Miami (Jan. 27 & 28).
He will then return to Cleveland to perform the first piano concerto of Brahms followed by the final concert on Sun. Feb. 5 featuring Brahms' Chamber music (Piano Sonata No. 3, Opus 5; Violin Sonata No. 3, Opus 108, and Piano Quintet, Opus 34).

Posted on 19 January 2012

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra tour & Chicago Symphony Gala

Fima is looking forward to his tour with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Andris Nelsons in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Lucerne and Grafenegg (Austria) as well as the opening Gala with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 on Sept. 24th.

Posted on 11 July 2011

March 2011 recital tour

Fima is in the middle of his recital tour this month and will appear at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, Rozsa Centre, Calgary; Carnegie Hall, NY and Camp Concert Hall at Modlin Center for the Arts, Richmond, VA next.

Following his March 9th recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall LA Times reviewer Rick Schultz wrote "his breathtaking agility and velocity in [Chopin Etude] No. 4, the buoyant suppleness of his “Black Key” Etude (No. 5) and the controlled fury of his concluding “Revolutionary” Etude, ...brought the audience to its feet."

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Posted on 14 March 2011

Fima spends Thanksgiving with the San Francisco Symphony

Fima is in San Francisco this week, where he joins the San Francisco Symphony and music director Michael Tilson Thomas for three performances of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (Nov 24, 26 & 27). When Fima performed this work with Tilson Thomas in Chicago last season, Andrew Patner of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that Fima is a “master at taking large-scale works such as the 1858 Brahms D minor concerto here, and both playing them within an inch of their virtuosic lives and sharing his extensive analysis with an audience -- seldom does the combined presence of classical, romantic, and baroque influences in this great orchestral calling card become as clear as it was here."

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Posted on 23 November 2010

Fima Crowns Duo Tour with Pinchas Zukerman at Carnegie Hall and in Boston

Having already crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe earlier this season with concertos by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Bartók, pianist Yefim Bronfman now caps a nationwide duo tour with violinist-violist Pinchas Zukerman, at Carnegie Hall (Nov 20) and Boston’s Symphony Hall (Nov 21).

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Posted on 19 November 2010